it cannot, I think, be very very well denied that the letter of the Treaty is against us in both prints; Lord Russell and Mr Cardwell have said that, Treaty no treaty, we must not deliver people over to be tortured. And when within ... I think that we must not deliver political offenders.
On this state of things the negociations in progress are engrafted. The Treaty right plainly to be modified. Sir R. Alcock writes that the Chinese Form will consent (in case of criminals delivered by the British Authorities) to abandon torture as a means of punishment, but not as a means to treat.
Lord Stanley it appears is content with this. But it seems to me that Sir R. Alcock has left untouched the question whether we are to give up political offenders, and that he has left in existence that application of torture which is a matter ...
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